Dartmouth Story

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Congratulations on printing such a straight-forward treatment of the Cirrotta mishap. Of course, a few of the wishy-washy kind may take exception to your frank recognition of the worthlessness of human life, but I trust that you will face their mewling as coolly as the "naturally regrettable" incident itself.

At any rate, anyone who is guilty of such specific heinousness as being "a generally shifty guy," "wearing a letter which he had not earned" (a Cardinal Sin!)," "'bossing' meetings" (in Education 4, no less), and who has had "innumerable instances of petty dishonesty attributed to him," certainly is deserving of capital punishment.

Let us all, with Dartmouth College, "try to forget about the death of Raymond J. Cirrotta as quickly as possible," pausing only momentarily with Dartmouth's student body--and, perhaps, his family and friends--to rejoice that "if it had to be any Dartmouth man, I'm glad it was Cirrotta." Monroe H. Freedman '51

In the CRIMSON'S article on the Cirrotta death last Monday, three of the paragraphs attempted to point out:

1. The bizarre attitude toward the fatality which existed in Dartmouth the day after the incident.

2. The relations between Cirrotta and his acquaintances which motivated his selection as target for the unintentionally fatal scuffle.

The CRIMSON believes this to be proper material for a story on a subject as bewildering as the Dartmouth incident. The paragraphs in question were in no way intended to slander the victim, to condone the instigators, or to make light of the tragedy.

However, the CRIMSON regrets that a failure to explain fully the purposes of the material, plus a quotation in poor taste misled some readers as to the actual Intent of the three paragraphs.--Ed.